You’re right, it’s a moral argument involving discretion.

We’ve looked at the refunds and quite a few of the bundlers received not only their general election refund but also the primary refund. Which was one part legal–the general refund—and one part discretion by the campaign.

What we’re arguing is that Edwards is refunding quite a bit of the primary contributions to his bundlers while the “little” contributors aren’t seeing a penny.

Why shouldn’t the “little people” who contributed to the Edwards campaign and now want their money back, the non-bundlers and fat cats, get their money refunded?

Edwards is showing his true colors, he talked the talk but never walked the walk. We don’t mind being advocates for those who need help in getting a refund from Edwards.

All that being said, I don’t think it has anything to do with the issue of large contributors getting legally-mandated refunds for their donations to the general election campaign. And I don’t think small contributors who only contributed to the primary campaign are being unfairly treated compared to the large contributors (who by definition also got shafted for their full $2300 maxed-out contributions to the primary campaign).

And the only one’s he’s giving refunds to are the ones who reap the rewards and think they can buy the Congress or Presidency.

Wee bit hypocritical, methinks.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03EED91139F930A15752C0A9629C8B63

”One America that does the work, another America that reaps the reward. One America that pays the taxes, another America that gets the tax breaks. . . . One America — middle-class America — whose needs Washington has long forgotten. Another America — narrow-interest America — whose every wish is Washington’s command. One America that is struggling to get by, another America that can buy anything it wants, even a Congress and a President.”

DP you made some great points.

This is the issue I take umbrage too:

“I don’t see why it should matter to smaller contributors. If they gave less than $2300, then all of it would go towards Edwards’ primary campaign, which is what they wanted at the time. How were they hurt?”

You assume you know what the smaller contributors want.

The smaller donors are upset that their candidate, Edwards, mislead them while taking their money. While his bundlers and high end donors received refunds due to a different reason, they still got their money back while the little guys are left to sit and stew.

They see it as unfair and so do we.